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WITH BRIEF NOTES ON ASHKENAZI JEWS AND THE KHAZARIAN THESIS OF KOESTLER By Lasha Darkmoon January 29, 2012 RED: Higher IQs of 100 or more. GREEN: Lower IQs of under 80 1 Afghanistan 83 2 Albania 90 3 Algeria 84 4 Angola 69 5 Antigua & Barbuda 75 6 Argentina 96 7 Armenia 93 8 Australia 98 9 Austria 102 10 Azerbaijan 87 11 Bahamas 78 12 Bahrain 83 13 Bangladesh 81 14 Barbados 78 15 Belarus 96 16 Belgium 100 17 Belize 83 18 Benin 69 19 Bhutan 78 20 Bolivia 85 21 Botswana 72 22 Brazil 87 23 Brunei 92 24 Bulgaria 93 25 Burkina Faso 66 26 Burma (Myanmar) 86 27 Burundi 70 28 Cambodia 89 29 Cameroon 70 30 Canada 97 31 Cape Verde 78 32 Central African Rep. 68 33 Chad 72 34 Chile 93 35 China 100 36 Colombia 88 37 Comoros 79 38 Congo (Braz) 73 39 Congo (Zaire) 65 40 Costa Rica 91 41 Côte d’Ivoire 42 Croatia 90 43 Cuba 85 44 Cyprus 92 45 Czech Republic 97 46 Denmark 98 47 Djibouti 68 48 Dominica 75 49 Dominican Republic 84 50 Ecuador 80 51 Egypt 83 52 El Salvador 84 53 Equatorial Guinea 59 54 Eritrea 68 55 Estonia 97 56 Ethiopia 63 57 Fiji 84 58 Finland 97 59 France 98 60 Gabon 66 61 Gambia 64 62 Georgia 93 63 Germany 102 64 Ghana 71 65 Greece 92 66 Grenada 75 67 Guatemala 79 68 Guinea 63 69 Guinea-Bissau 63 70 Guyana 84 71 Haiti 72 72 Honduras 84 73 Hong Kong 107 74 Hungary 99 75 Iceland 98 76 India 81 77 Indonesia 89 78 Iran 84 79 Iraq 87 80 Ireland 93 81 Israel 94 (Ashkenazi Jews = 117. See endnote on Jewish IQ) 82 Italy 102 83 Jamaica 72 84 Japan 105 85 Jordan 87 86 Kazakhstan 93 87 Kenya 72 88 Kiribati 84 89 Korea, North 105 90 Korea, South 106 91 Kuwait 83 92 Kyrgyzstan 87 With the single exception of Ashkenazi Jews (see Endnote), the “yellow races” enjoy the highest IQs in the world, with the Hong Kong Chinese scoring most (107), South Koreans (106), North Koreans (105), Japanese (105). In comparison, the average Caucasian has an IQ of 100 or less. 93 Laos 89 94 Latvia 97 95 Lebanon 86 96 Lesotho 72 97 Liberia 64 98 Libya 84 99 Lithuania 97* 100 Luxembourg 101 101 Macedonia 93 102 Madagascar 79 103 Malawi 71 104 Malaysia 92 105 Maldives 81 106 Mali 68 107 Malta 95 108 Marshall Islands 84 109 Mauritania 73 110 Mauritius 81 111 Mexico 87 112 Micronesia 84 113 Moldova 95 114 Mongolia 98 115 Morocco 85 116 Mosambique 72 117 Namibia 72 118 Nepal 78 119 Netherlands 102 120 New Zealand 100 121 Nicaragua 84 122 Niger 67 123 Nigeria 67 124 Norway 98 125 Oman 83 126 Pakistan 81 127 Panama 84 128 Papua New Guinea 84 129 Paraguay 85 130 Peru 90 131 Philippines 86 132 Poland 99 133 Portugal 95 134 Puerto Rico 84 135 Qatar 78 136 Romania 94 137 Russia 96 138 Rwanda 70 139 Samoa (Western) 87 140 Sao Tome/Principe 59 141 Saudi Arabia 83 142 Senegal 64 143 Seychelles 81 144 Sierra Leone 64 145 Singapore 100 146 Slovakia 96 147 Slovenia 95 148 Solomon Islands 84 149 Somalia 68 150 South Africa 72 151 Spain 99 152 Sri Lanka 81 153 St. Kitts & Nevis 75 154 St. Lucia 75 155 St.Vincent/Grenadines 75 156 Sudan 72 157 Suriname 89 158 Swaziland 72 159 Sweden 101 160 Switzerland 101 161 Syria 87 162 Taiwan 104 163 Tajikistan 87 164 Tanzania 72 165 Thailand 91 166 Togo 69 167 Tonga 87 168 Trinidad & Tobago 80 169 Tunisia 84 170 Turkey 90 171 Turkmenistan 87 172 Uganda 73 173 Ukraine 96 174 United Arab Emirates 83 175 United Kingdom 100 176 United States 98 177 Uruguay 96 178 Uzbekistan 87 179 Vanuatu 84 180 Venezuela 88 181 Vietnam 96 182 Yemen 83 183 Yugoslavia 93 184 Zambia 77 185 Zimbabwe 66 Endnote on Jewish IQ: ASHKENAZI JEWS: Unlike the “average” Jew in Israel whose IQ is given above as 94, the Ashkenazi Jew is said to have an average IQ of 117: 10 points above the Hong Kong Chinese (107), 20 points above the Canadians (97), 30 points above the Mexicans (87), and 50 points above the Nigerians (67). “The 2005 paper “Natural History of Ashkenazi Intelligence” by Cochran, Hardy, and Harpending, argued on the basis of inherited diseases and the peculiar economic situation of Ashkenazi Jews in medieval Europe, that Ashkenazi Jews as a group now inherit a cognitive profile that includes higher verbal and mathematical intelligence than other ethnic groups, along with lower spatial intelligence. One observational basis for inferring that Ashkenazi Jews have high intelligence is their prevalence in intellectually demanding fields. From 1901–2010, 21.5% of Nobel Prize winners were Jewish, while Jews make up a much smaller fraction of the population of the countries represented. For example, 36% of Nobel Prize winners from the United States have been Jewish, while Jews make up 2.1% of the U.S. population. G. Cochran, J. Hardy and H. Harpending additionally cite the disproportionately high percentage of Ashkenazi Chess Grandmasters and Fields Medalists in mathematics, as well as winners of the Turing Award in computer science. Their median IQ is calculated at 117 in From Chance to Choice: Genetics and Justice (2000), published by Cambridge University Press. This is 10 points higher than the generally-accepted IQ of their closest rivals—Northeast Asians—and almost 20% higher than the global average.” See Ashkenazi Jewish Intelligence. “Other researchers who study the Ashkenazim have asserted an IQ number a bit lower than 117, but all have agreed that these children of Abraham are on top of the IQ chart. Plus, contemplate this astounding tidbit: Ashkenazi “visual-spatial” test scores are typically lower than the norm; this means their abilities in the other two categories, language and math, are absolutely astounding. Nobel Prizes: Since 1950, 29% of the awards have gone to Ashkenazim, even though they represent only 0.25% of humanity. Ashkenazi achievement in this arena is 117 times greater than their population. Hungary in the 1930s: Ashkenazim were 6% of the population, but they comprised 55.7% of physicians, 49.2% of attorneys, 30.4% of engineers, and 59.4% of bank officers; plus, they owned 49.4% of the metallurgy industry, 41.6% of machine manufacturing, 72.8% of clothing manufacturing, and, as housing owners, they received 45.1% of Budapest rental income. Jews were similarly successful in nearby nations, like Poland and Germany. USA (today): Ashkenazi Jews comprise 2.2% of the USA population, but they represent 30% of faculty at elite colleges, 21% of Ivy League students, 25% of the Turing Award winners, 23% of the wealthiest Americans, and 38% of the Oscar-winning film directors. Israel: In 1922, this swamp and desert land was inhabited by an impoverished population of 752,000. Today there are 7,746,000 residents, with an Ashkenazi majority that have elevated it into a high-tech entrepreneurial nation with the highest per capita income in the region.” See: Why is the IQ of Ashkenazi Jews so high? The simplest explanation for the huge IQ difference between the fair-skinned Ashkenazi Jews and swarthier Jews of Semitic appearance (e.g., Sephardic Jews) is a so-called conspiracy theory known as the “Khazarian thesis”. Popularized by Arthur Koestler in The Thirtheenth Tribe and accepted by notable Jewish scholars themselves (e.g. Prof. Shlomo Sand), this basically states that the Ashkenazi Jews are “false Jews” or aliens of an entirely different race masquerading as Semitic Jews. Originating in a region known as “Khazaria”, these Turko-Tartaric tribes converted to Judaism in the 8th century. So they were “Jews” only by religious conversion, not by blood. As such, being essentially “false Jews”, they have no historic link to the Holy Land and no Biblical claim whatever to Palestine. KHAZARIA: ORIGINAL HOMELAND OF THE ASHKENAZI JEWS Descended from the Khazars, a Turkic race originally from Central Asia and related to the Hun, Uigur and Magyar tribes, the ancestors of the Ashkenazi “Jews” had settled in Khazaria in the Black Sea/Caspian Sea area at some point in the Dark Ages. Of wholly Asiatic origin, they became “Jews” later only by religious conversion in the 8th century. This is controversial. Because, if true, it means that Ahhkenazi Jews have no ancestral links with the Holy Land. Abraham and Moses were NOT their ancestors. Any claim made to Palestine on Biblical grounds by Ashkenazi Jews ~ who comprise the bulk of Israel’s population today ~ would therefore be a spurious claim. The Khazarian thesis of Koestler has been rejected by other notable scholars. Prof. Kevin MacDonald is one of these. He states categorically: “Modern population genetic studies show conclusively that Jews are indeed an ethnic entity and that widely dispersed Jewish groups are more similar to each other than to the peoples they have lived among for hundreds or thousands of years.” (See here). The are two significant weaknesses with this anti-Khazarian thesis, i.e., with the idea that Ashkenazi Jews and other Jews are pretty much the same and originate from the same “Semitic” race that produced Abraham and Moses. (1) Studies that show “genetic similarities” between Ashkenazi Jews and other widely dispersed Jewish groups do not necessarily disprove the Khazarian thesis. This is because intermarriage between the Ashkenazis and the non-Askenazi or “Semitic” Jews was frequent in Khazaria from the 8th century onward, and indeed anywhere else in the world where the fair-skinned Khazarian “Jews” (= Jews by conversion) mingled with and married the darker Semitic Jews. (2) The huge gap of 23 points between the IQ levels of Israeli Jews (94) and Ashkenazi Jews (117) cannot be satisfactorily explained if we believe, as MacDonald states, “that Jews are indeed an ethnic entity and that widely dispersed Jewish groups are more similar to each other than to the peoples they have lived among for hundreds or thousands of years.” If we examine the IQs of the Northeast Asians, for example, we note that these genetically related races all have very similar IQs: Hong Kong Chinese (107), South Koreans (106), North Koreans (105), Japanese (105), Taiwanese (104), Mainland Chinese (100). None of these genetically related races is 23 points higher than any of the others, though taken as a whole they are 23 points higher than most of the African races. The conclusion is obvious: the fact that the Northeast Asians and the Africans have such a huge difference in their IQs is a proof, if any were needed, that these races are genetically unrelated. If we take the European or Caucasian races, we note exactly the same thing: a striking similarity of IQs: Germany (102), Austria (102), Italy (102), Netherlands (102), Sweden (101), Switzerland (101), Belgium (100), UK (100), Spain (99), Hungary (99), Poland (99), France (98), Denmark (98), Norway (98). Note that not one of these European races is 23 points higher in IQ than any of the others, though taken as a whole they are 23 pints higher than the African nations. The conclusion is again obvious: the fact that the Europeans and the Africans have such a huge difference in their IQs is a proof, if any were needed, that Europeans and Africans are genetically unrelated. From this we arrive at the indisputable conclusion that huge differences in IQ between one group and another group essentially means that the groups belong to different races. If, for example, every Caucasian nation mentioned above had similar IQs of around 100, but ONE European nation, Ruritania, had an average IQ of 123, one would have to conclude that the Ruritarians did not really belong to the same Caucasian race as all the others. It is this that gives credence to Koestler’s Khazarian thesis: that the Ashkenazi “Jews” are not really Jews, and that they are Jews only by conversion to Judaism. CONCLUSION: The 23 point difference in IQs between Ashkenazis and non-Ashkenazis would seem to demonstrate conclusively that these people belong to entirely different races. If they belonged to the same “Semitic” race, they would follow the general rule of having similar IQs. Speaking of anti-Semitism, Koestler was to write that it was based “on a misapprehension shared by both the killers and their victims.” The story of the Khazar Empire, he went on to add, gave an entirely new twist to “the distorted view that all Jews were genetically related and belonged to the same Semitic race.” This began to look, he concluded controversially, “like the cruelest hoax which history has ever perpetrated.” ~ See The Thirteenth Tribe, Part 2, “The Heritage”

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